Looks like she's still going strong https://github.com/the-dress-code

any objective measure of "productivity" (when it comes to knowledge work) is, when you dig down into it enough, ultimately subjective.

Rob Pike and Ken Thompson are brilliant computer scientists & engineers.

Some people (like the author) are going to seriously overthink this at first, and then we'll get used to it.

Idk why you’d want to get used to it. I’m very lucky to have a job that doesn’t mandate AI use, and as far as I can tell I haven’t been hit by any work AI emails. My social media bubble on Mastodon is extremely anti-AI, I pretty much never have to deal with slop.

On the rare occasion I see some GPT garbage, I either block the sender, or if I know a human is involved I explain how insulting it is and let them know they’re one slop message away from blocked.

Getting used to it is a surefire way to make your communication experience much worse.

I'm not referring to spam. I'm thinking about how AI-enabled email/messaging/writing actually makes communication clearer. Many people are not very good at expressing themselves in writing, either due to language barriers or simply lack of writing skills, but I've seen a noticeable difference in how some of these people are now able to communicate with me over email. They leverage the LLM as a function to transform their naturally-poor and hard-to-understand writing into a clear, comprehensible message with proper grammar that I can easily consume and immediately understand what they need. The fact that the message has been clearly transcribed by an LLM is completely okay with me.

<< Many people are not very good at expressing themselves in writing

If they can't handle an email, what makes you think they can handle a prompt, which requires more, not less careful calibration?